|
|
|
|
|
|
by iandanforth
1 day ago
|
|
|
This article seems very one-sided, as do many others I looked through. The 'why' of people trying to cross seems to be totally ignored. Very low quality sources say things like: - The police are shipping people to the border - These are all criminals that the police are letting get away so they don't have to deal with them - People are fleeing the absolute monarchy and poor economic conditions If anyone has any high quality sources about the above please post them! |
|
|
"Spain says huge surge across border into enclave has reversed" - https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/spain-morocco-halt-dead...
The context is that could not happen without the cooperation and orchestration by the Moroccan government, and its a kind of warning. Its a warning on recent warm up of relations of Spain with Algeria [2]. Something that is of great strategic concern due to historical disputes over the Western Sahara. [1]
The Spanish prime minister of course is totally compromised, and weak in all fronts.
His wife will stand trial for corruption [3] and he had to cynically support a measure to do regularization program for undocumented migrants that could get up to 1 million getting regular papers. Independently of the merits or not of the program, he did this agreement with the left-wing party Podemos in January 2026. Sánchez leads a minority government and depends on smaller parties for parliamentary support, so reaching deals with Podemos basically allowed him to continue in government.
[1] - "Migration As A Weapon In The Spanish-Moroccan Crisis" - https://tdhj.org/blog/post/migration-weapon-spain-morocco-cr...
[2] - https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260720-spain-pm-sanchez...
[3]- "Wife of Spanish PM forbidden to leave country as corruption probes pile up" - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/21/europe/spanish-pm-wife-co...